Cultural History of Technology
STS.464 · Science, Technology, and Society · Graduate · Spring 2005
Prof. Leo Marx, Prof. Rosalind Williams
<p>The subject of this course is the historical process by which the meaning of “technology” has been constructed. Although the word itself is traceable to the ancient Greek root <em>teckhne</em> (meaning art), it did not enter the English language until the 17th century, and did not acquire its current meaning until after World War I. The aim of the course, then, is to explore various sectors of industrializing 19th and 20th century Western society and culture with a view to explaining and ass…
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